Monday Murals - Katara Cultural Village 2

I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you.  Just follow the Linky steps below.  Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere.  The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.  Thanks Sami

Murals from Katara Cultural Village, in Doha, Qatar.

"Friends - Qatar and Cuba" - this mural shows a boy spinning a football, while the other looks up in wonderment. The mural was painted by Cuban artist Maisel Lòpez Valdés in one of Katara's buildings and it was inaugurated just before the Fifa World Cup 2022.

                    

The following 2 murals also in the village, I didn't see the artist's name.

Qatar - Sports Museum & Villagio Mall

Also joining Tom with his "Signs"meme. Please check his blog for more signs from around the world.

And today I continue with my trip to Qatar:

Wednesday 1st January  - After our New Year's eve party, we had a day of rest at home, watching movies, reading...

Thursday 2nd - We visited the  3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum - in the Al Rayyan district, connected to the Khalifa International Stadium, the museum opened in March 2022, and focus on domestic and international sports.

Interesting museum, specially for those that love sports.

Khalifa International Stadium

Michael Schumacher - one of the greatest F1 driver

Rally car of the Qatari rally driver (and sport shooter) Nasser Salih Nasser Abdullah Al-Attiyah.

                  

The start of the Olympic games

The area dedicated to the Olympic games was quite interesting, with copies of every single olympic torch, mascots from all the olympic games.

Olympic torches

Olympic games mascots

All the cities that hosted the Summer or Winter olympic games

There was an area dedicated to the Qatari rally car driver Nasser Salih Nasser Abdullah Al-Attiyah, and to Formula 1.

The first Grand Prix held in Qatar was in November 2021 in place of the cancelled Australian Grand Prix due to covid.

In 2022 it wasn't held there due to the 2022 Fifa world cup, between November and December. They have since signed a 10 year contract fro 2023 for the Grand Prix to be held at the Lusail International Circuit.

 Jose and I both tried (unsuccessfully) to drive a rally car.

Ferrari Alfa Romeo "Testa Fissa"

All the main sports people were honoured with a short story listing their achievements. They missed out on one of the biggest football greats - Cristiano Ronaldo :(

From the 15th Asian Games, held in Doha - uniform, mascots, medals

After leaving the museum we walked towards the Villagio Mall, going past another architectural masterpiece - the Torch Doha Hotel (or Aspire Tower), the 300 (980ft) metre tall building, the second tallest in Doha. That protrusion (right of photo) is actually the hotel's pool!!

On the roundabout between the hotel and the mall was a sculpture with 2 hands holding letters that read "Qatar" on one side, but read "Forward" on the opposite side. It was created by Italian sculptor and former actor Lorenzo Quinn, also the son of famous actor Anthony Quinn.

Hands are Lorenzo Quinn's speciality

At the Villagio Mall we first chose a place to eat - (can't remember which one). 

For a fixed price, we piled our choice of ingredients onto a plate- veggies, meat, fish, spices, sauces - then gave them to the chefs in front of a grill. When cooked they put the food onto a plate and handed it to us.

The Villagio, is a Venetian style mall with a painted sky, and Mediterranean 

looking shop fronts painted in pastel colours.

 

Extensive water canals with gondolas going back and forth, an Imax cinema, go-kart area, ice-rink, mini-golf, plus a range of shopping including a lot of the luxury brands, and various dining options, make it one of the most popular shopping areas.

Gondolas on the canals

A little bus also takes people around the mall

Gondolandia Entertainment area

Ice-rink in the center of the Food court  

Can't remember what this was - ice-cream balls??

The sun was setting when we left the mall, and we took an Uber home.

A funny mug at my daughter's house 

Monday Murals - Katara Cultural Village 1

Hello. I'm home and back with Monday Murals, after a 3 week visit to Portugal, primarily to participate in a 4 generations birthday party, which included my birthday. I landed in Perth on Friday night and still feeling jet-lagged, but it takes me a week to get back to normal.

I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you.  Just follow the Linky steps below.  Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere.  The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.  Thanks Sami

Three murals from the Katara Cultural Village in Doha, Qatar: 

The glass tile mosaic wall art, found on one of Katara's buildings, glimmers under the sun and was designed to look like paint spilling onto the floor from the top of the building.  

                                                                                                                                                                                       

On the steps going up to the amphitheatre is this "Van Gogh" like mural. I couldn't find the name of the artist, and haven't found anything online either.

"Without borders" , a mural by Brazilian artist Kelvin Koubik. It was unveiled in October 2022, as part of the World cup murals project in Katara.